2022-05-01
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – get
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Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/683299 @2020-10-03
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Get
This word of many meanings has a primary one:
“to obtain”
“to come into possession of.”
It has numerous informal, idiomatic,
or slangy meaning and
appears in several hackneyed expressions.
Among informal meaning of Get and Got (the past tense of get) are
“to comprehend” (I don’t get you);
“to get the advantage of” (Overeating will get him);
“to be forced or obliged (I have got to leave soon);
“to strike or hit” (The bullet got him in the arm).
Amongslangy or trite uses may be mentioned
“to puzzle” (that remark got me);
“to observe” (Did you get that look?); and
“get about” “get ahead of” “get across” “get along”
“get around” “get around to” “get away with”
“get back at” “get by” “get down to business”
“get nowhere” “get something off one’s chest”
“get out of” “get together” “get through to some-one”
“get up and go.”
Do you get the idea that get is overused?
Dictionary.com:
ORIGIN OF GET
First recorded in 1150–1200; (verb) Middle English geten
from Old Norse geta “to obtain, beget”;
cognate with Old English -gietan (as in forgi(e)tan forget),
German -gessen (as in vergessen “to forget”); (noun) Middle English: “something gotten, offspring,” derivative of the verb
Dictionary.com:
SYNONYM STUDY FOR GET
Get, Obtain, Acquire, Procure, Secure
implygaining possession of something.
Get may apply to coming into possession in any manner,
and either voluntarily or not.
Obtain suggests putting forth effort to gain possession,
and acquire stresses the possessing after an (often prolonged) effort.
Procure suggests the method of obtaining,
as that of search or choice.
Secure, considered in bad taste
as a would-be-elegant substitute for get,
is, however, when used with discrimination, a perfectly proper word.
It suggests making possession sure and safe,
after obtaining something by competition or the like.
Dictionary.com:
USAGE NOTE FOR GET
For nearly 400 years,
forms of get have been used with a following past participle
to form the passive voice:
She got engaged when she was 19.
He won't get accepted with those grades.
This use of get rather than of forms of to be
in the passive is found today chiefly in speech and informal writing.
In British English
got is the regular past participle of get, and
gotten survives only in a few set phrases,
such as ill-gotten gains.
In American English
gotten, although occasionally criticized,
is an alternative standard past participle in most senses,
especially in the senses “to receive” or “to acquire”:
I have gotten (or got ) all that I ever hoped for.
Have or has got in the sense “must”
has been in use since the early 19th century;
often the have or has is contracted:
You've got to carry your passport at all times.
The use of have (or has ) got in the sense of “to possess”
goes back to the 15th century; it is also frequently contracted:
She's got a master's degree in biology.
These uses are occasionally criticized as redundant
on the grounds that have alone expresses the meaning adequately,
but they are well established and fully standard
in all varieties of speech and writing.
In some contexts in American English,
substituting gotten for got produces a change in meaning:
She's got (possesses) a new job.
She's gotten (has acquired) a new job.
He's got to (must) attend the wedding.
He's gotten to (has been allowed or enabled to) attend.
The children have got (are suffering from) the measles.
The children have gotten (have caught) the measles.
The use of got without have or has to mean “must”
( I got to buy a new suit ) ischaracteristic of the most relaxed,
informal speech and does not occur in edited writing
except in representations of speech.
Gotta is a pronunciation spelling representing this use.
Dictionary.com:
HOW TO PRONOUNCE GET
The pronunciation [git] for get has existed since the 16th century.
The same change is exhibited in [kin] for can and [yit] for yet.
The pronunciation [git] is not regional and
occurs in all parts of the country.
It is most common as an unstressed syllable:
Let's get going! [letsgit-goh-ing].
In educated speech
the pronunciation [git] in stressed syllables is rare and sometimes criticized.
When get is an imperative meaning “leave immediately,”
the pronunciation is usually facetious: Now get! [nou git].
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
How do you pronounce get?: Usage Guide
Verb
The pronunciation \ˈgit\ has been noted as
a feature of some British and American dialects
since the 16th century.
In the phonetic spelling of his own speech Benjamin Franklin records git.
However, since at least 1687 some grammarians
and teachers have disapproved this pronunciation.
It nonetheless remains in widespread and unpredictable use
in many dialects, often, but not exclusively,
when get is a passive auxiliary
(as in get married) oran imperative (as in get up!).
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Words We're Watching
What's a 'Good Get'?
How to use 'get' as a noun
Get and ask, two venerable verbs,
are getting more frequent use as nouns lately.
It might surprise you that,
though both nouns sound like recent jargon to most people
(“a good get,” “what’s the ask?”),
get and ask have been nouns for as long as they have been verbs
in English; the nouns are just much less common today.
And though
ask is most often used in business and fundraising contexts,
get seems to be used most often in writing about sports,
entertainment, and politics.
In its oldest uses,
get as a noun could mean “earnings” or “booty,”
referring to something that is gained, or “offspring.”
It also means “the return of a difficult shot in a game” in racquet sports, and has done so since the early 20th century.
But more recently,
get has been used to mean both
“someone or something gotten or obtained” and
“the act of getting or obtaining someone or something.”
As with ask,
get is usually paired with a modifier such as good, big, great, or huge.
Ask is used in phrases like “a big ask” or “a tough ask,”
meaning that what is being asked for
or hoped for is difficult or unlikely.
This meaning jumped from sports to the hiring of people in other fields:
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
get′a·ble, get′ta·ble adj.
Usage Note:
The use of get in the passive,
as in
We got sunburned at the beach, is generally avoided in formal writing.
In less formal contexts, however,
the construction can provide a useful difference in tone or emphasis,
as between the sentences
The demonstrators were arrested and
The demonstrators got arrested.
The first example implies that
the responsibility for the arrests rests primarily with the police,
while the example using get implies that
the demonstrators deliberately provoked the arrests.
· In colloquial use and in numerous nonstandard varieties of American English, the past tense form got has the meaning of the present.
This arose probably by dropping the helping verb have
from the past perfects have got, has got.
We've got to go,
we've got a lot of problems became
We got to go, we got a lot of problems.
The reanalysis of got as a present-tense form
has led to the creation of
a third-person singulargots in some varieties of English.
Random House Kerneman Webster’s college Dictionary:
get′ta•ble, get′a•ble, adj.
usage:
The use of get rather than of forms of to be in the passive
(He won't get accepted with those grades)
is found today chiefly in informal speech and writing.
In American English gotten, although occasionally criticized,
is an alternative standard past participle in most senses,
esp. “to receive” and “to acquire”:
I have gotten (or got) a dozen replies so far.
have or has got meaning
“must” has been in use since the early 19th century,
often contracted: You've got to carry your passport everywhere.
In the sense “to possess” this construction dates to the 15th century
and is also often contracted: She's got a master's degree in biology.
Occasionally condemned as redundant,
these uses are nevertheless standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
got without have or has meaning “must” (I got to buy a new suit)
is characteristic of highly informal speech.
gotta is a pronunciation spelling representing this use.
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
gotten
1. meaning 'become'
Get is very often used to mean 'become'.
The sun shone and I got very hot.
I was getting quite hungry.
2. used for forming passives
In spoken English and informal writing,
you often use get instead of 'be' to form passives.
My husband got fired from his job.
Our car gets cleaned about once every two months.
Don't use get to form passives in formal English.
3. used for describing movement
You use get instead of 'go'
when you are describing a movement that involves difficulty.
They had to get across the field without being seen.
I don't think we can get over that wall.
Get is also used in front of in, into, on, and out
to talk about entering and leaving vehicles and buildings.
I got into my car and drove into town.
I got out of there as fast as possible.
See go into - get into - get on, go out - get out - get off
4. 'get to'
When you get to a place, you arrive there.
When we got to the top of the hill we had a rest.
Get to is also used in front of a verb
to talk about attitudes, feelings, or knowledge
that someone gradually starts to have.
I got to hate the sound of his voice.
I got to know the town really well.
See get to - grow to
5. transitive uses of 'get'
If you get something, you obtain or receive it.
He's trying to get a new job.
I got the bike for Christmas.
6. 'have got'
Got is also used in the expression have got.
See have got
